My God, I’m about ready to puke. The race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama promised to be historical. But little did any of us realize that the history to be made was a record of inanity. With a nearly two-year campaign, the media could have focused on detailed analysis and voter [...]
I’m a relative newcomer to the Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion. It’s quite possible that I don’t understand all of the subtleties that are causing fractures in the worldwide church (I certainly am not immersed in it as this site), but I think it can be represented rather simply as three major issues: 1) Some diocese [...]
That’s the science part - Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project, talking about his personal faith and the role of science - here’s the religion vs. religion part.
Eboo Patel talks about addressing “Q” - a gathering of Evangelical Christians “dedicated to exploring “the church’s role in positively engaging culture”.”
I think [...]
The Florida legislature, proving that they have absolutely no sense whatsoever, approved legislation that will allow people to take their gun to work. It isn’t as bad as it sounds at first - guns have to be kept in a locked car. Because, you know, those things don’t ever get broken into and/or [...]
This is amazingly stupid. In fact, it’s so stupid, it’s stoopit.
An Illinois delegate for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama resigned after using the word “monkeys” to describe black children playing in a tree, the Obama campaign said Tuesday.
Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, a trustee in the Chicago suburb of Carpentersville, was issued a $75 ticket for disorderly conduct [...]
A few weeks ago, some folks made a fuss over John McCain’s endorsement by John Hagee. Hagee is what is roughly referred to as a “Christian Zionist”. He believes that, in the end-times, Israel will become the focal point for a new wave of prophets and that the world will descend into war [...]
There’s no Big Love in Texas, I tell you what. Police raided a Mormon-based polygamist sect’s compound over the weekend. The big issue is that girls younger than fifteen are being “given in marriage” - and by “given”, they apparently mean “here you go, do what you want with her”. Under Texas [...]
Time Magazine has a “First Annual Blog Index”. Most of those that made the list are rank strangers to me. The top ten, according to Time, are:
1. Ace of Spades HQ
2. Lifehacker
3. Engadget
4. Boing Boing
5. The Consumerist
6. Freakonomics
7. Radosh.net
8. [...]
Robert Jones has an interesting article in Religious Dispatches that deals with EJ Dionne’s contention that the Religious Right is dead. But the evidence cited by Dr. Jones shows that Dionne is probably exaggerating quite a bit. He writes:
…James Dobson’s sprawling conglomerate has its own zip code in Colorado Springs and a larger [...]
When the Bishop was talking this weekend, he brought up the idea of “Now what?” It is, he said, the third step in determining a purpose, the first two being, “What?” and “So what?”. Thing is, it’s something I’ve been wrestling with as far as the continued presence of this blog. It [...]
